Boards

this is a very nascent seed of an idea but after vague suggestions of sorts from Lyle and others I was thinking we should get together an DiS boards package and get a gig in Paris - maybe us (emoclassicists The Faculty) and PWL and Grinders lot and a few others - any suggestions - this after all would be an ace field trip if nothing else

he can get me the names of some more friendly venues - this is the year of DIY in terms of everything and 'package gigs' is the way forward - screw the music industry!!! well until they return my calls, natch.....

djs and hangers on of course - resteless boy can come in the back of our van (yes we have a gig van) - now all we need to do is to 'source' a venue and a date - I say early summer/spring - spread the joy of DiS to English-loving Paris - cannot wait to go to the Latin Quarter again - some of the ebst food on earth is cooked there GASTROFACT

we should actually do this. If Prole or whoever want to sort out the 'organising a gig' aspects of it, I would be happy to sort out logistics of getting people there and somewhere to stay. This would be SO GOOD.

we'll need a few cars as well as the Fac van for 'gear' - all bands can muck in with gear and any band expences which shouldn't be much and channel tunnel here we come!
we need a sterring committee on this really don't we?

Not for long ( taking car of my son ) but enough to say that if it's a GREAT idea, it's a difficult thing to do, because of all the kind of taxes we have.
Will ask someone i know who organized some gigs yeas ago ( Low, Quickspace... ) but stopped because of the time ( and money ) it cost him !
Finding a venue isn't a problem at the moment ( many small venues are active, maybe more tha ever ) but doing it according to the law might prove not really cheap.
And i'm doubting my wife would accept 20 DiSers at our home...

That might be cheap or even free ! there's a small boat ( 80/100 capacity ) which is managed by an association that could accept renting the venue for free if they maange the ticket office.
Problems are :
paying the Sacem.
paying professional taxes.
and certainly millions of things like that !
Will ask some people.

which agreed to let play bands just like that. They didn't pay the bands ( apart from a couple of beers ), this was just giving them space to make them have a public and practice.
After 6 months, the owner was judged and find guilty. He had to pay a 1 000 000 francs fine !

this sounds complicated! But we've got a few months to get things sorted. And if they really don't want to let l'anglais come and play, then we can just have a holiday and come and watch some gigs. YES. (and don't worry Lyle, we would stay in a hostel or something!)

wish...
Not complicated but a bit of organisation...
And summer might not be the best moment, most of the small venues are closed.
Will try to ring some people in the coming days to see how it cold be done.
And i'll try to go to London at least once in 2006 !

or DiSers from across the country could all organise gigs and then we could all travel round to each of them, that would be good! It wouldn't be Londoncentric anyway - restlessboy's only been here liek, once!